348 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
and finish with half a round. Instead of taking the end of the eighth 
round down to the preceding transverse strand only, he has brought it 
down to the heel bar, which brings the ninth round to the left, following 
the even rounds, and coming to the end of the hind bar, the tenth to the 
right end of the bar, so that it is the eleventh which makes the first 
transverse turn at the top. The pattern is the same as in the point 
nettings. The right shoe has 25, 24, and 19 strands in the three sets 
respectively, and the left, 25, 25, and 19. The toe nettings are put on 
in the same way, the first round going to the middle becket at the toe, 
and crossing to the first becket on the right hand, the second going to 
the first becket on the left hand and crossing on the right to the first 
round, and the third going to the first round at the toe and crossing 
on the right to the becket. 
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Fig. 353.—Heel netting of snow shoe; (a) first round; (6) first, second, and third rounds. 
All the even rounds go to the becket at the toe and cross to the pre- 
ceding even round, and all the odd rounds go to the preceding odd 
round at the toe and cross to the becket, until the space outside of the 
first round is filled with longitudinal strands, when they begin to make 
descending transverse turns across the toe, going from the becket on - 
the left to the corresponding one on the right and thus following the 
odd rounds. The fourteenth round on the right shoe begins this, the 
twelfth on the left. This brings the end of the last round to the middle 
of the toe bar. It is then carried up to the becket at the toe, brought 
down and up again, and the end is used to fasten these three parts to 
the netting with equidistant half hiteches—fourteen on the right shoe 
and thirteen on the left. The pattern, of course, is the same as before, 
with 33, 33, and 26 strands on the right shoe, and 31, 31, and 25 on the 
left, in each set respectively. 
